Robin shook her head.

"I don't know how it happened, but the next thing I know the woman, her name was Sherri, comes over to ask if Cliff could help her husband move something and she's wearing it."

"I asked where she got it and she said she found it in the closet.

I told her it was mine and I'd been looking for it. She gave it back to me, then two weeks later it was on her again. She didn't remember me ever asking for it back and when I did this time she couldn't get it off.

“We were out on the deck and she'd been sunbathing and while we were talking I happened to look up and catch her son in the window. He was staring down at his mother and taking pictures of her. It had started."

“What happened to her?" Emma asked warily.

"One night Cliff and I were out in the yard and we heard the husband yelling at Sherri. I sent Cliff over to make sure everything was okay and when he got there the husband," She narrowed her eyes.

“Harry, that was his name, was leaving with a suitcase.”

“Cliff asked what happened and Harry told him he'd found a bunch of pictures of his wife having sex with another man. He didn't know who because the man's face wasn't in any of them."

"Pictures?"

“Her son, Robert was studying to be a photographer. His mother became his favorite subject and when they crossed the line he mixed his passions and took pictures. Harry found them. He had no idea the mystery man was his son, but it was enough to make him leave."

"And Sherri and her son?"

Robin looked away.

“What happened to them?"

"Robert left to live with his father in the city and after spending weeks in a deep depression Sherri entered some type of commune."

“A commune?"

"Yes, she told me and Cliff she had committed a huge sin and wanted to rededicate her life to God in order to earn forgiveness. She didn't tell us what she did, but we knew."

"She didn't have the necklace on when she left and we searched the house and couldn't find it. Then Kathy and her husband and son moved in and guess what? She found it, said it was under her bed."

"Kathy." Emma repeated.

"Her and her son Paul were the ones who vanished and you said turned up in California."

“And are very happy together to this day." Robin smiled.

"They moved far away where no one knew them and people just think she's a lucky older woman with a good looking young boyfriend."

"So they're happy?"

"Very."

"Then why didn't this thing." She tapped her chest.

"Go back to damn sleep like yours? In fact why didn't she keep it?"

“The necklace is bound to this family and when it was broken some of its essence and power seeped into the dirt where Timothy's father buried the pieces he could find. Its now bound to the land as well.”

"So Kathy just took it off and left it."

"No, she came to me on the day she left and I noticed it wasn't on her neck and she said she lost it."

"But I bet it showed up with the new tenants, didn't it?"